第12课

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Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.

我们大多数人对荒岛生活形成了一种不切实际的想象。

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We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.

我们有时把荒岛想象成一个阳光普照的天堂。

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Life there is simple and good.

那里的生活简单而美好。

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Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.

成熟的果实从树上掉下来，你根本不用劳动。

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The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.

而另一方面的情况却恰恰相反。

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Life on a desert island is wretched.

荒岛上的生活是悲惨的。

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You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never comes.

你不是饿死，就是像鲁滨逊漂流记一样，苦等一艘永不来临的船。

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Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.

也许这两种景象都有点真实性，但我们很少有人有机会去证实。

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Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.

最近，有两个人在一个珊瑚岛上待了五天，他们真希望能在那里待得更久。

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They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.

他们正驾驶一艘严重受损的船从维尔京群岛前往迈阿密修理。

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During the journey, their boat began to sink.

旅途中，他们的船开始下沉。

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They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.

他们迅速将食物、火柴和几罐啤酒装上一艘小橡皮艇，划行了几英里穿过加勒比海，直到抵达一个微小的珊瑚岛。

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There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.

岛上几乎没有树木，也没有水，但这并没有成为一个问题。

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The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.

两人用橡皮艇收集雨水。

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As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.

由于他们带了一支鱼枪，所以食物很充足。

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They caught lobster and fish every day, and as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.

他们每天都捕捞龙虾和鱼，正如其中一人所说，他们“吃得像国王一样”。

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When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.

五天后，当一艘过往的油轮救起他们时，两人都真诚地感到遗憾，因为他们不得不离开。